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Retail E-Commerce Platforms 2023–2024 RadarView Scan™
Avasant’s Retail E-Commerce Platforms 2023–2024 RadarView Scan™ helps enterprises in evaluating key vendors providing retail e-commerce platforms. The 29-page report also highlights how vendors leverage their capabilities to provide a retail e-commerce platform to address these challenges.
March, 2024
Applied AI Services 2024 RadarView™
The Applied AI Services 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for applied AI services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key applied AI service providers across the dimensions of practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right service partners. The 65-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the applied AI space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
April, 2024
Generative AI Platforms Q2 2024 RadarView™
The Generative AI Platforms Q2 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for Gen AI platforms by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for platform providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key Gen AI platform providers across the dimensions of product maturity and market adaptability, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right platform partners. The 34-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the Gen AI space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
June, 2024
Cloud Customer Relationship Management Suites 2024 Market Insights™
The Cloud Customer Relationship Management Suites 2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any CRM adoption project. It also provides insights into the key use cases addressed by enterprises across various industries.
July, 2024
Application Modernization Services 2024 RadarView™
The Application Modernization Services 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for application modernization by offering detailed capability and experience analyses of service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key application modernization service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation. The 68-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the application modernization services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
September, 2024
Automation to Autonomy: How Synchronous AI Agents are Shaping the Future of Business Operations
Over the last three decades, automation has evolved from back-office to middle-office and now front-office tasks, with each step driven by advancements in AI. We now stand on the threshold of a new era: synchronous AI agents. These specialized agents can independently manage end-to-end execution of complex processes, limiting human involvement to governance and key approvals. The automation fabrics of the future will likely combine RPA, AI copilots, and synchronous AI agents, coexisting and complementing each other. This research byte explores the industry’s shift toward synchronous AI agents, the changing market landscape, and key enterprise considerations for adopting this transformative technology.
November, 2024
End-user Computing Services 2024–2025 Market Insights™
The End-user Computing Services 2024–2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any end-user computing services project. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
December, 2024
The Evolution of Synchronous AI Agents: Enterprise Adoption Trends and Strategies
The next leap forward is the rise of synchronous AI agents—self-learning systems capable of executing complex, end-to-end tasks from a single prompt. Avasant presents The Evolution of Synchronous AI Agents: Enterprise Adoption Trends and Strategies report in this context. This study is based on in-depth interviews with over 60 industry leaders, including C-level decision-makers, advisors, providers, and tech vendor executives. It offers recommendations for enterprises to accelerate adoption while addressing associated risks and challenges. The report delves into the evolution of synchronous AI, adoption timelines, and industry priorities while uncovering key challenges, opportunities, and strategic considerations, including workforce strategies and outsourcing impacts.
January, 2025
Beyond Hyperscalers: The Need for Purpose-Built Cloud in Enterprise IT
As enterprises embrace hybrid and multicloud environments, they face increasing challenges in managing distributed workloads, controlling cloud costs, and scaling AI-driven applications. This whitepaper explores the limitations of conventional cloud models and the need for a unified solution that seamlessly integrates IaaS, PaaS, AI, security, and connectivity on the back of an open-source architecture that helps eliminate vendor lock-in. It also examines Tata Communications’ Vayu Cloud, launched to help enterprises seamlessly orchestrate workloads across multicloud and hybrid environments, optimize cloud spend, and integrate AI capabilities within a secure and scalable framework.
March, 2025
Cybersecurity Services 2025 Market Insights™
The Cybersecurity Services 2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any cybersecurity project. The report also highlights key enterprise priorities, investment patterns, and evolving buyer expectations that are reshaping how cybersecurity services are evaluated and consumed.
April, 2025
Retail Digital Services 2025 RadarView™
The Retail Digital Services 2025 RadarView™ helps retail enterprises craft a robust strategy based on industry outlook, best practices, and digital transformation. The report can also aid them in identifying the right partners and service providers to accelerate their digital transformation in this space. The 89-page report also highlights top market trends in the retail space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
June, 2025
Avasant Quantum Series: From Hype to Strategy — A Quantum Readiness Guide for CIOs and CTOs
Quantum technology—rooted in the principles of quantum mechanics—is poised to tackle problems far beyond the capabilities of today’s most powerful classical computers. Its potential spans computing, cybersecurity, advanced sensing, and next-generation materials. Yet, many enterprises remain on the sidelines, assuming quantum computing is still years from real-world impact. Drawing on client interactions and insights into enterprise aspirations across AI and quantum, we have developed a comprehensive framework for service providers to assess and build quantum readiness, spanning technology readiness, talent and capability, ecosystem partnerships, and investments and innovation. It also incorporates key decision-making principles that enterprises can use to evaluate and select providers for their quantum journey.
June, 2025
Multisourcing Service Integration 2025 Market Insights™
The Multisourcing Service Integration 2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any MSI project. The report also highlights MSI challenges that enterprises face today.
July, 2025
After the Ink Dries: The Compliance Tightrope in Post-Merger Procurement
The press release is out. The deal is done. But for procurement teams, the real challenge is just beginning. In one recent merger, a global enterprise discovered that over 30% of its inherited supplier contracts were noncompliant with local data privacy laws, just weeks before integration. This isn’t unusual—if anything, it serves as an early heads-up. When it comes to post-merger compliance, unanticipated issues can quietly become bigger challenges if left unchecked.
August, 2025
Power is the New Procurement: Buying Compute + Kilowatts Together
As AI workloads scale, the true cost of compute is no longer measured in tokens or instances; it is measured in kilowatts, carbon intensity, and latency thresholds. This shift demands a new commercial playbook where energy becomes a first-class contract term. Enterprises must now co-price compute with power, embed energy-indexed clauses, and negotiate for sustainability-linked incentives. Avasant’s AI Contract Intelligence framework helps organizations future-proof their sourcing strategies by integrating energy terms across the compute stack, from hardware to application. The result: predictable costs, assured capacity, and measurable ESG impact.
September, 2025